Indian Premier League For Cricket

Lalit Modi is the chairman and commissioner of Indian Premier League and a vice president at BCCI. He hit the national limelight with the launching of the IPL.

Born on November 29, 1963, Delhi,  Lalit Kumar Modi was the President of Rajasthan Cricket Association. He is the Vice President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

He along with Inder Singh Bindra are the brains behind the IPL. He holds the position of Commissioner in the Indian Premier League. Lalit Modi was born into a business family and is the scion of Modi Enterprises a 4000-crore group, the industrial conglomerate founded in 1933, it has interests in agro-chemicals, tobacco, tea and beverages, education, entertainment and marketing.

Lalit Modi also sits on the board of Godfrey Philips, one of India’s more successful tobacco companies. Modi is considered as one of most powerful people by India Today magazine. He was included because the BCCI’s revenues have increased seven-fold since he joined the board in 2005 and because “no one in cricket wants to be on his wrong side”. He drives a tough bargain and is known to stick to his guns.